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primaries. Lower parts from the chin to the tail coverts, 

 orange yellow. Second quill feathers the longest. On a 

 careful examination of this bird, and on comparing it with 

 Wilson, Audubon and De Kay's works, I find that it 

 belongs to the Tanager genus, viz., the Pyranga (estiva, or 

 Summer Red-bird of Audubon, of course in female 

 plumage. The colour and peculiar formation of the bill, the 

 divided extremity of the tongue, the form and position of 

 the nostril, the length and curve of the claws, and the 

 length of the second primary, sufficiently point out this 

 species. The authors I have here mentioned are in general 

 much too brief in their descriptions of female birds, a 

 matter of little consequence, doubtless, in a country where 

 both sexes are to be found in equal numbers, but to us, 

 when a female specimen only is occasionally to be met 

 with, the want of fuller information regarding their 

 plumage, &c, is much felt. 



April gth. — Captain Drummond sent Mr. Wedderburn a 

 telegraph from St. George's to say he had obtained a 

 Pelican which had been shot there, Pelicanus fuscus, no 

 doubt. 



April lot/i. — Mr. Wedderburn shot another Cedar Wax- 

 wing this morning, in Mr. Ewing's cedar grove. As the 

 small flock was remarkably tame, he is of opinion these 

 birds have recently arrived here ; those near the Chief 

 Justice's pond being shy and wary. Met Mr. Wedderburn 

 near the Chief Justice's pond in the evening ; he had killed 

 a full plumaged Green Heron, and fired at a Woodpecker 

 (Picus varius). Accompanied him to the sandhills and 

 hunted the south shore from thence to Hungry Bay with- 

 out seeing a bird. At Mr. Harry Tucker's pond a solitary 



